Key Points
NEW DELHI: Born a day before India became a republic, the Election Commission has evolved a lot in the last 75 years from the period of ballot boxes to the era of electronic voting machines with democracy being the beating heart of this electoral machinery..
Since its inception on January 25, 1950, the Commission has conducted 17 general elections, numerous assembly polls and elections to the offices of presidents and vice presidents...
The Election Commission of India (ECI), headquartered at Nirvachan Sadan in Delhi, is now gearing up to hold the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, whose schedule is likely to be announced in March...
While independent India held its first elections in 1951-52 with steel ballot boxes for 489 seats to the House of the People, electronic voting machines (EVMs) conceived in the late 70s, were first used in an assembly poll in 1998 and expanded to a chunk of parliamentary constituencies in 1999...
Navin Chawla, the 16th CEC of India, in his book, "Every Vote Counts: The Story of India's Elections" writes that the commission continued to "derive enormous advantage by being amongst the first electoral management bodies worldwide to embrace technology so comprehensively"...
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